Immigrants rebelled against the Mafia

The Italian author Roberto Saviano warns in the left-liberal daily La Repubblica about a generalised tendency to equate immigrants with criminals and points to the courage of Africans who dared to take action against the organised crime of the Mafia in Italy: "Those who say the landing of boats full of immigrants will bring a wave of crime, who claim that they incite violence and destruction, are perhaps forgetting two recent and very significant episodes in the history of our republic. The two most important, spontaneous uprisings against the Mafia in Italy were initiated not by Italians, but by Africans. … For the international observer these generalisations about the criminality of immigrants are truly difficult to explain. Particularly in a country like Italy which has exported the Mafia to every corner of this world."

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